Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • Cosmiques@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    1 year ago

    The things I upvote and downvote are in line with my personal values and I am not ashamed of that.

    Sounds an awfull lot like I have nothing to hide therefore I don’t need privacy. The goal of crypto etc is to design protocols that allow you not having to trust anyone. I don’t want to trust anyone, and I don’t.

    • moozogew@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      Bit crypto does that by publicly recording all transactions on the Blockchain, this is kinda the same thing in that it’ll not just about being told ‘in total sixteen people agree’ and having to belive spez that he hasn’t just invented the number, it’s seeing who voted and how.

      You can of course have more than one account and keep your identity private similar to crypto where your transactions are public but the owner of the walker can be private

    • PrimalAnimist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      No, I keep some things private. But some things, like reactions and upvotes, are just as public to me as the posts I make is my point. It just isn’t a concern for me personally.